Company

Text Analysis International Inc., California

Duration

1 years (1998-present)

Project Description

Design and build Visual Text: a tool for quickly building and maintaining text analysis systems.

Title and Group

Senior Engineer Scientist

Responsibilities

Designer of the Graphic User Interface for Visual Text. Also heavily involved in the design of the natural language processing component of Visual Text. Also webmaster of the TAI website.

Software

MFC Microsoft Library

Platform

PC, NT operating system.

Misc.

Graphic designer. Designed TAI Logo.

Company

Interactive Search, Los Angeles, California

Duration

2 years (1997-98)

Project Description

Buit a Natural Language Extraction system to extract information from resumes of any format. First live NLP parser on the Internet in the world.

Title and Group

Senior Engineer Scientist

Responsibilities

To build text extraction capabilities using natural language processing. Also designed interface design and programming.

Software

C, UNIX, HTML, CGI, Perl, JavaScript

Platform

Sun workstation, PC

Company

TRW, Digital Information Systems, Redondo Beach, California

Duration

3 years (1993-Present)

Project Description

An information dissemination system, taking eletronic information from all sources, extracting data, and providing a user interface to easily access and search the information via hypertext links, database queries, and multi-media.

Title and Group

Senior Engineer Scientist, Advanced InfoWeb Research Group

Responsibilities

To build text extraction capabilities using natural language processing. Also manager of user interface design and programming. Current 1996 task is to manage and participate in porting the current user interface to the World-Wide Web including doing original artwork.

Software

C, UNIX, Galaxy, Motif, HTML, CGI, Perl, JavaScript, Java, VRML

Platform

Sun workstation, Macintosh

Misc.

Graphic designer. Designed InfoWeb Logo.

Company

McDonnell Douglas Defense & Electronics Systems, Santa Ana, California

Duration

3 years (1990-1993)

Project Description

A text understanding shell which builds text analyzers using linguistic and world knowledge to understand written text. Includes words, sentence structure, meaning, and story level understanding

Title and Group

Senior Engineer Scientist (with secret clearance), Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Advanced Software Technologies, McDonnell Douglas

Responsibilities

Contribute new research ideas to TexUS. Make TexUS a practical system. Design a user friendly interface for TexUS as well as other projects when needed in the group. Assist in applying McDonnell Douglas SEI (Software Engineering Institute) Level 3 Process to TexUS development. Demonstrate TexUS to customers and at conferences.

Software

C, UNIX, Sunview, XView, Motif

Platform

Sun workstation, NeXT machine

Conferences

Message Understanding Conferences (Sponsored by DARPA), 1991, 1992; AAAI (Annual national conference on Artificial Intelligence) 1991, including Text Retrieval/Natural Language Processing workshop; AFCEA conferences (Los Angeles, Washington

Misc.

Involved in 3 proposal efforts: writing and graphics. Created TexUS name and designed TexUS logo.

Company

Tecsis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (on working visa)

Duration

2 years (1987-1989)

Project Description

A PC-based, natural language interface to databases (allows users to type in plain Portuguese to retrieve data from PC and mainframe databases)

Title and Group

Head of Natural Language Research, Artificial Intelligence Group

Responsibilities

Lead the design an implementation of a natural language interface to databases in Portuguese including the user interface. Demonstrate capabilities to clients.

Software

Turbo C, Lisp, DOS

Platform

PC

Conferences

FENESOFT national software conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988, 1989. Invited speaker at the Northern Brazil Conference on Computer Science, Manuas, Brazil, 1988

Teaching

Graduate course in Natural Language Processing at IME, (Instituto Militar de Engenharia), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1989

Publications

15 articles on Artificial Intelligence for PC Mundo (PC World of Brazil)

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NLQ: Natural Language Query

Company

Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus Ohio

Duration

2 1/2 years (1985-1987)

Project Description

A PC-based natural language interface to databases (allows users to type in plain English to retrieve data from relational mainframe databases)

Title and Group

Natural Language Researcher/Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Group

Responsibilities

Prototype a natural language interface to relational databases including a user interface in Lisp on a Lisp machine. Assist in translating to C on a PC. Design the user interface. 4000 copies sold world-wide.

Software

Lisp, Microsoft C, DOS, SQL

Platform

Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine, PC

Conferences

National On-line Meeting, New York, 1985.

Teaching

Graduate course in Natural Language Processing at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1986; Undergraduate Linguistics, Ohio State University, 1985

Publications

"Introduction to Computational Linguistics", The Language Files, published by Ohio State University.; DIID: A Transportable Data-Independent Natural Language Interface for Relational Database", Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, Los Angeles, 1985

Misc.

Created NLQ name and designed NLQ Logo

CompanyBattelle Memorial Institute, Columbus OhioDuration1 year (1984-1985)Project DescriptionA natural language processing system to read newswire articles and put data into a databaseTitle and GroupNatural Language Researcher/Scientist, Artificial Intelligence GroupResponsibilitiesDesign a natural language processor to extract information from newswire articlesSoftwareLispPlatformVAX, Xerox 1108 Lisp MachineConferencesNational ACM conference, Philadelphia, 1984Publications"A Natural Language Front End for a Cybernetics Model", Proceedings of ACM National Conference, Philadelphia, 1984